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Nehemiah 6:13

American Standard Version

For this cause was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

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Nehemiah 6:13 in other translations

He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

Nehemiah 6:13 · World English Bible

Nehemiah 6:13 in context

  1. 11And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.
  2. 12And I discerned, and, lo, God had not sent him; but he pronounced this prophecy against me: and Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
  3. 13For this cause was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me.
  4. 14Remember, O my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.
  5. 15So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.